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Step one is to stop restricting housing growth so that the subset of people who are on the edge don’t fall off. Then it gets easier for a lot of existing syste
by Schiendelman 5y ago
Step one is to stop restricting housing growth so that the subset of people who are on the edge don’t fall off.
Then it gets easier for a lot of existing systems to help people who are capable of getting back into (cheaper) housing to do so.
And then we can focus on people who really need more care because we won’t be actively making things way worse the way we are with our housing policies now.
- giantg2 5y agoI don't know about this. Most places aren't very restrictive. The big cost is labor and materials. Both of these are constrained resources. Any rapid increase will lead to even higher costs. Again, preferences of the people with the money to actually build new construction will be to buy run down houses to remodel or level and start over, with large area and expensive options of course. I don't really see anything indicating the housing supply at the low end of the spectrum would increase, nor that overall prices would drop given that inputs would increase.
- Schiendelman 5y agoNo offense intended, but yes, you definitely don’t know about this. Most cities with high demand allow nothing more dense than houses on 2/3 or more of their land. It is easy to falsify your argument about personal preference because people are willing to pay much more per sqft for condos in the center than houses at the edge.